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Keith Rocco put the rush job on to get from Thompson International Speedway to the Waterford Speedbowl Saturday night and it paid off.
Rocco, of Wallingford, passed Tom Abele Jr. on the final lap to win the 35-lap NASCAR Whelen All-American Series SK Modified feature at the Waterford Speedbowl Saturday.
It was the second [...]
THOMPSON – Two races, two poles.
It’s fair to say NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour driver Ryan Preece and his Flamingo Motorsports team have quickly mastered the action of qualifying together.
Preece, of Berlin, was fastest Saturday in qualifying on the way to winning the pole for Sunday’s Whelen Modified Tour season opening Icebreaker 150 at Thompson International [...]
THOMPSON – The engines of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour roared back to life for the 2012 season Saturday with the arrival of Icebreaker 2012 qualifying day at Thompson International Speedway.
Saturday’s qualifying will set the field for Sunday’s Icebreaker 150 at Thompson. Ted Christopher of Plainville is the event’s defending champion.
Before qualifying [...]
THOMPSON – Justin Bonsignore’s quest to assert himself as a contender for a NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour title in 2012 began nicely Saturday at Thompson International Speedway.
Bonsignore, of Holtsville, N.Y., led the way in practice Saturday at Thompson in preparation for Sunday’s season opening Icebreaker 150.
Bonsignore toured the five-eighths mile oval at [...]
THOMPSON – The sun is shining, the sky is blue and there’s no snow in the forecast, time to go racing at Thompson International Speedway.
The Big T opens it 2012 racing schedule Saturday with day one of Icebreaker weekend. Practice rounds begin at the track at 11:15 a.m., with the NASCAR Whelen Modified [...]
Despite establishing himself over the last five years as one of the top weekly short track drivers in the country, Keith Rocco quiet’s demeanor has seemingly gone unchanged.
There’s little flashy about Rocco’s personality, which strangely seems to make for the perfect equation when it comes to Rocco’s new ride in the NASCAR Whelen [...]
The July NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour event is now a little more identifiable.
A source at New Hampshire Motor Speedway has confirmed that Town Fair Tire will take on the role of title sponsor for the division’s July 14 event at the 1.058-mile oval.
The event will be known as the Town Fair Tire [...]
The longest current starting streak on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will continue in 2012, though Ed Flemke Jr. will have a new owner backing that effort.
Flemke, of Southington, will team up with Middletown team owner Don King this season on the Whelen Modified Tour.
“We’ve been working on it for a while [...]
According to a message posted on the Thompson International Speedway, 2010 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour series champion Bobby Santos III will compete in the division’s season opening event at Thompson on April 15.
The Facebook posting said Santos will drive the Tinio Motorsports #44 car for Icebreaker weekend at Thompson. It is unclear if [...]
If 2012 proves to be the last year before a break from racing for Richie Pallai Jr., he’s going to make sure he gets the most out of it.
With an eye on a possible career playing professional hockey after college, the 22-year old Pallai will set forth this season with a varied racing [...]
Derek Ramstrom and his new family owned NASCAR K&N Pro Series East aren’t quite ready to make a run at a full season in NASCAR’s top developmental division, but over the weekend the West Boylston, Mass. driver showed that doesn’t mean they don’t belong.
The 20-year old Ramstrom, a regular at Thompson International Speedway, [...]
The Motor Racing Network will be putting Modified racing in the spotlight weekly with the broadcast of their new show Modified Madness every Wednesday afternoon on the MRN website.
Former local track announcer and Killingly native Kyle Rickey, now a broadcaster with MRN, hosts the show along with MRN’s Buddy Long.
The show debuts [...]
Overextended is not a word in Keith Rocco’s vocabulary, at least not when it comes to being behind the wheel for short track competition.
With the 2012 season closing in fast, Keith Rocco keeps adding to his repertoire of new and varied rides for this season.
A few weeks ago, Rocco expected to run [...]
With just a few weeks remaining until the local racing season gets under way for 2012, local tracks will be on showcase this weekend in Hartford during the 53rd Frank Maratta’s Auto and Cycle Show at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford.
NASCAR Whelen All-American Series sanctioned tracks Stafford Motor Speedway, the Waterford Speedbowl [...]
It’s a relationship in the past led to a pair of NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour championships for Mystic car owner Bob Garbarino.
And it’s a relationship back together on a mission to look for a third series title.
Two-time Whelen Modified Tour champion Donny Lia will return to the series in 2012 to drive [...]
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